tom vek - hero or zero ?

.. but i just know you are spot on with the connection.

i think his stuff is great, been listening to it excessively lately and still like it.

I bought Nothing But Green Lights today and I like it. The repetitive keyboard part is a bit out of time, and it all sounds very fresh for something so derivative- just listening to the remixes now... the Clor one brings out the new order in him...

It's just Once in a Lifetime without the chorus, really, isn't it?

Nice sleeve, though.

The lyric isn't especially great, though, is it?

I sense that ilm collectively shrugs it's shoulders at the Tom Vek.

It's an affectation but not a rip off, I think. Mark E. Smith has a trademark sloppiness to his suffixes-"ah" that can't be replicated.. Murphy's decay a lot faster and sound more youthful and exhuberant. (Not to say Murphy doesn't sound sloppy at times, and not to say MES doesn't sound exhuberant at times, at least back in the day, but anyway..)

Beck comparison is shallow.

If You Want bassline is total heat. Album has at least 4 solid singles.

Caught him on tour after his drummer bailed out. Played the entire first half of the show singing whilst banging the skins himself.

my conclusion would be: talented guy, with obvious potential.

This guy's strength in the singles department is another thing he shares with New Order. Good idea; go for the singles. But it's also those same hit-&-miss early albums that are usually the more distinctive, strident and plain interesting to surface in a discography.

Some of We Have Sound's staged flaws can be a bit obvious and flat, but they're more than made up for by Vek's brightly coloured palette of noisy emotions, making his work such an appealingly flamboyant mess that I'll know it's one to keep an ear on for some time.

I still really like "CC (You Set the Fire in Me)" but never want to hear anything else in case it kills the magic.

So is he recording under a different name or did he join someone's band or something? Because there aren't even any vague proclamations of him working on his follow up anymore like there were as recently as a year ago. I'm giving up.

Listened to We Have Sound only last week, as it happens! Still sounds interesting and danceable.

I seem to remember an interview about five years ago wherein he said something like "I've got a great deal with my label where they will never hassle me for a new album, ever, so I'm just going to take my sweet time about it."

Maybe that's just what he's doing...

From Zane Lowe (ugh) Twitter:

Tom Vek is back! New album 'Leisure Seizure'. New single, 'A Chore' first play next Monday at 7:30pm on R1. We are very happy about this.

Not sure if excited is the right word but it's been the better part of a decade so I'm interested to hear what he's been up to.

I'll be excited for both of us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfWUl5OvB0

it's here!

this guy still exists???????

oh cool his aesthetics have gone all chillwave

This is fucking knobrot. I don't normally complain about "weird singing" but this is just plain BAD SINGING. Every track sounds like a Marfan syndrome sufferer bashing a bunch of bean cans in a shed accompanied by a man-donkey who insists on guzzling hooffuls of marbles every time he tries to sing.

I haven't felt so repelled by a piece of music in years. How anyone can take it seriously, let alone enjoy it is beyond me.

like a Marfan syndrome sufferer bashing a bunch of bean cans in a shed

Is that a reference to the singer from Deerhunter?

no. i don't have any interest in deerhunter

hi dere late pass; I am just hearing "C-C (You Set The Fire In Me)" for the first time via internet radio and it is fucking GREAT

I think you'd probably like most of the first album, DJP.

I'm still formulating an opinion of the new one.

I liked several tunes off the first album, but 'A Chore' doesn't do anything for me.

Dan Perry's the last person I would expect to like this for some reason.

Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip without the "humour". "A Chore" lives up to its name.

Dan Perry's the last person I would expect to like this for some reason.

you saw how apeshit I went over These New Puritans last year, right

anyway I am annoyed that all of my usual avenues for that first album are turning up shady resellers

Yeah but These New Puritans (who I'm not convinced by, but w/e) seem to have more going on, plus they've got that industrial EBM thing. This sounds like someone who got rejected from the worst NMEindie band circa 2007 decided to get hold of the shittest drum machine he could find and sing over it while regrouting his bathroom.

New album streaming

http://hypem.com/#!/artist/Tom%20Vek

'A Chore' is fucking great

Hilariously bad. Sounds more dated than his debut perhaps.

Really, he might be the British Rivers Cuomo.

New album
https://tomvek.bandcamp.com/album/new-symbols

Also, he's been working on a music player?
https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/tom-vek-sleevenote-product-design-121120